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Biography: Wishart, Jean Boughton

Retirement

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When Jean Wishart retired as editor of the Woman’s Weekly in 1985, media rightly observed that it marked the end of an era.

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Reference: TZP8103

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Barbara Brookes. 'Wishart, Jean Boughton', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2022. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/47729/retirement (accessed 5 June 2026).